Bristol Refugee Festival
Celebrating inclusion and diversity
Join Bridges for Communities on Tuesday 9th June for a Peace Feast, bringing together neighbours in Knowle and Totterdown at Redcatch Garden. Featuring a delicious feast, a short talk and the opportunity to share stories and conversation around the table, this will be a chance to share your thoughts on courage in community and get […]
Bristol Central Library presents four captivating 15‑minute films, created by The Daily Mirror in 2024 - 2025, celebrating the remarkable strength, warmth and resilience found in communities across the UK. Together, the films invite us to reflect on the powerful question: are we an island of strangers — or a nation of neighbours? More details […]
A welcoming, community‑focused sports day that includes cricket and football delivered by the Gloucestershire Cricket Foundation and the Bristol City Robins Foundation. Food and refreshments will be available throughout the day. When: Wednesday 10 June 2026, 10am - 3pm Where: The Bristol West Indian Phoenix Cricket Club, The Rose Green Centre, 65 Gordon Road, Whitehall, […]
The WEA Learning Hub in St Pauls invites you to an open day celebrating the courage and resilience of their ESOL learners. Representing over 40 nationalities of refugees and asylum seekers, the WEA learners are coming together to showcase their diverse journeys of arriving in the UK, settling into new neighbourhoods and learning a new […]
Join us at Greenway in the Community Garden to share your stories of courage over delicious picnic food. When: Wednesday 10 June 2026, 3pm - 6pm Where: Greenway Centre Community Garden, Greenway Centre, Doncaster Road, Bristol BS10 5PY Free (no booking required) Find out more here: Southmead Stories of Courage Picnic – Southmead Development Trust
Come to Connect and Grow for food, friendships and new skills. There will be food and crafting available between 11am and 2pm as well as the chance to chat to helpful people about employability skills and keeping your home healthy and warm. We'll also have two practical workshops sessions, one about boosting your skills and […]
The Lion, the Fox and the Feather is an art and poetry drop-in event for all the family! Respond with art and poetry to an illustrated version of the Aesop fable ‘The Fox and the Lion’ created specifically for the 2026 Bristol Refugee Festival and the theme of Courage. A mosaic of all responses will […]
Join Bristol Refugee Rights for a Community Lunch at our Welcome Centre Open Day to celebrate Refugee Week! It will be a hopeful, positive, celebratory event, bringing the community together for an afternoon of food, music, art and activities. When: Thursday 11 June 2026, 12pm - 3pm Where: Bristol Refugee Rights For further information, email […]
A talk and poetry reading (indaba) with Ambrose Musiyiwa, a poet and journalist, and Helen Moore, a Bristol-based ecopoet and academic. Musiyiwa co-edits the Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series, which has recently published As British as Fish and Chips, an anthology of writings by and about refugees crossing the English Channel. Moore, whose latest […]
Words have always carried people across borders. As part of Evolve Music's Community Rhythms project, Bristol City Poet Sukina Noor invites you to find your voice, claim your story, and discover the power of your own words in this special poetry workshop at Bristol Refugee Festival. Whether you are new to poetry or have been […]
The Lion, the Fox and the Feather is an art and poetry drop-in event for all the family! Respond with art and poetry to an illustrated version of the Aesop fable ‘The Fox and the Lion’ created specifically for the 2026 Bristol Refugee Festival and the theme of Courage. A mosaic of all responses will […]
A poetry reading and dialogue between Zimbabwean poet and journalist Ambrose Musiyiwa and Bristol-based ecopoet Helen Moore. Musiyiwa co-edits the Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series, and is the founder of Forced Migration and The Arts, a global network that brings together people with lived experience of forced migration, artists, academics, activists and art spaces. […]